scholarly journals Work of Redemption: King Lear and The Red Book

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew A. Fike
Keyword(s):  
King Lear ◽  
Initial State ◽  
Psychological Dysfunction ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Unity Of Opposites

The Red Book by C. G. Jung remains an unexplored analogy for William Shakespeare’s King Lear. Jungian critics of the play have mainly emphasized Lear’s extraverted rationality versus his need to foster introversion and love. Jung’s visionary experiences suggest an additional pattern: a departure from an initial state of psychological dysfunction, an encounter with unconscious forces, and a return that reflects inner progress. Within this tripartite structure, the two works share many themes and image patterns; but whereas Jung achieves genuine individuation, Lear’s progress is more akin to enantiodromia than to the ideal that The Red Book proposes—a balance or unity of opposites in the creation of a new third state of being.

They think they find themselves: radical violence and narcissistic-identity suffering

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Brunet
Keyword(s):  
Lone Wolf ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Ideal Ego ◽  
Group Regression ◽  
The Ideal

This article proposes a model of individual violent radicalisation leading to acts of terrorism. After reviewing the role of group regression and the creation of group psychic apparatus, the article will examine how violent radicalisation, by the reversal of the importance of the superego and the ideal ego, serves to compensate the narcissistic identity suffering by “lone wolf” terrorists.

Byron and Romantic Concepts of Inspiration

Romanticism ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-189
Author(s):  
Rolf Lessenich
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Period ◽  
Romantic Irony ◽  
Social Distinction ◽  
Ideal World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Ideal

Though treated marginally in histories of philosophy and criticism, Byron was deeply involved in Romantic-Period controversies. In that post-Enlightenment, science-orientated age, the Platonic-Romantic concept of inspiration as divine afflatus linking the prophet-priest-poet with the ideal world beyond was no longer tenable without an admixture of doubt that turned religion into myth. As a seriously-minded Romantic sceptic in the Pyrrhonian tradition and commuter between the genres of sensibility and satire, Byron often refers to the prophet-poet concept, acting it out in pre-Decadent poses of inspiration, yet undercutting it with his typical Romantic Irony. In contrast to Goethe, who insisted on an inspired poet's sanity, he saw inspiration both as a social distinction and as a pathological norm deviation. The more imaginative and poetical the creation, the more insane is the poet's mind; the more realistic and prosaic, the more compos it is, though an active poet is never quite sane in the sense of Coleridge's ‘depression’, meaning his non-visitation by his ‘shaping spirit of imagination’.

scholarly journals El teatro como ejercicio terapéutico en Todos somos el rey Lear, de Guillermo Schmidhuber

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
pp. 44-61
Author(s):  
Lourdes Betanzos
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Drama Therapy ◽  
King Lear ◽  
Therapeutic Exercise ◽  
Jean Baudrillard ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Psychological Concepts

En Todos somos el rey Lear, escrita en 1979 y publicada en 1982, el dramaturgo mexicano Guillermo Schmidhuber de la Mora plantea clara intertextualidad con William Shakespeare. El presente estudio es una exploración de cómo Schmidhuber teatraliza la creación de hiperrealidad como proceso terapéutico no sólo para ciertos personajes de la obra, sino también para el público e, incluso, para el dramaturgo mismo. Con esta finalidad se emplean los conceptos de Jean Baudrillard sobre la hiperrealidad y el simulacro, las afirmaciones del mismo Schmidhuber sobre la dramaturgia, así como también los conceptos psicológicos de Phil Jones sobre la drama-terapia y los efectos transformativos de este ejercicio teatral. Por medio de este proceso que resulta terapéutico, los personajes Millonario verdadero y Álvaro intentan enmendar los conflictos vitales que inquietan a ambos, a la par que el autor mismo negocia su identidad como dramaturgo.Theather as therapeutic exercise in We are all King Lear from Guillermo SchmidhuberAbstractIn We are all King Lear, written in 1979 and published in 1982, the Mexican playwright Guillermo Schmidhuber de la Mora clearly lays out an intertextuality exercise in front of William Shakespeare’s work. This study is an exploration of how Schmidhuber dramatizes the creation of hyperreality as a therapeutic process not only for certain characters of the play, but also for the audience and even for the playwright himself. To carry out this exploration, the paper applies Baudrillard’s concepts of hyperreality and simulation, as well as some affirmations from Schmidhuber himself about dramaturgy, and some of Phil Jones’ psychological concepts regarding drama therapy and its transformative effects as a theatrical exercise. Through this therapeutic process, the characters Real Millionaire and Álvaro attempt to rectify the vital conflicts that unsettle them both, while the author himself negotiates his identity as a playwright.Recibido: 05 de octubre de 2020Aceptado: 01 de febrero de 2021

Civic Patron as Ideal Citizen

The Lay Saint ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 83-125
Author(s):  
Mary Harvey Doyno
Keyword(s):  
Men And Women ◽  
Internal Focus ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Civic Community ◽  
New Equation ◽  
And Control ◽  
Contemplative Life ◽  
The Ideal

This chapter discusses the cult of Pier “Pettinaio” or Pier “the comb-maker” of Siena. Pier lived in Siena until his death in 1289, earning first a pious, and then a saintly reputation for his efforts to follow a rigorous schedule of prayer, to deliver charity to his fellow city-dwellers, and finally to resist the more aggressive commercial practices espoused by other urban artisans and merchants. One sees in Pier's vita how the celebration of a contemporary lay patron became an opportunity to think about the role everyday men and women played in the creation of an ideal civic community. As the vita repeatedly argues, Pier's extraordinary spiritual rigor produced the model of good communal citizenship. But one also sees in this vita an expanded understanding of the content and role of lay charisma. At the same time that the vita celebrates Pier's external actions, it also celebrates his internal focus: his embrace of the contemplative life, his prophetic powers, and his ecstatic states. Thus, in the years immediately before the mendicants took over guardianship and control of the lay penitential life, the cult of a pious Sienese comb-maker demonstrates not only a new equation between the ideal lay Christian and the ideal lay citizen but also an expanded notion of the content and power of lay spirituality.

Jurisdictional Formalism

2019 ◽  
pp. 138-174
Author(s):  
Jennifer Jahner
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Pastoral Theology ◽  
Property Law ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Estate Management ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Christian History

This chapter explores post-Lateran IV ecclesiastical reformism, focusing on the ecclesiology and pastoral theology of Robert Grosseteste, bishop of Lincoln. Grosseteste understood pastoral care not only as the clergy’s most vital responsibility to the laity but also as a form of participation in the divinely ordered natural universe. His pastoral and estate management writings to women accordingly reveal the degree to which this ecclesiology finds inspiration in the ideal of the justly governed estate. This chapter reads Grosseteste’s Anglo-French soteriological allegory, the Château d’Amour, alongside his writings to and for women, showing how the logic of secular property law becomes a means of narrating Christian time from the Creation through the Redemption to the Final Judgment. Grosseteste’s larger corpus, however, also reveals the extent to which his vision of Christian history is premised on Jewish exclusion, not only in theological but legal and practical terms.

Ashraf ʿAli Thanavi

2019 ◽  
pp. 146-170
Author(s):  
Margrit Pernau
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Apparent Contradiction ◽  
Strong Feeling ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Advice Book

Chapter 7 looks at the sermons of Ashraf ‘Ali Thanavi, known for the Bihishti Zewar, his best-selling advice book for female readers. At first sight, Thanavi fitted perfectly into the pattern of reading reformist Islam as a contributing force both to modernity and to the disciplining project. The ideal and the practices he encouraged seemed to aim at a constant vigilance over the movements of the soul and at a control of emotional outbursts. However, in apparent contradiction, the anecdotes surrounding Thanavi’s life point to a valuation of religious passions. His sermons very often overwhelmed his audience, leaving them shaking and crying or bringing about spiritual ecstasy— features which added to his reputation as a preacher and which he did not want to censor or prevent, though like the other reformers, he was much more comfortable with men giving in to strong feeling than with emotional women. Righteous emotions and righteous behavior, for him, were intertwined with the creation of the righteous polity.

Conclusions

2020 ◽  
pp. 249-252
Author(s):  
Marta Celati
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Political Theories ◽  
History Of ◽  
Humanist Tradition ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Ideal

The final section sums up the main innovative findings of this whole study. It points out how starting from the second half of the fifteenth century the development of a ‘thematic genre’ of literature on conspiracies was influenced by, but at the same time contributed to, the phenomenon of the literary fashioning of the profile of the ideal ruler, who now corresponded to the figure of a princeps. This literature also contributed to the creation of a new language and symbology of power through the multifunctional reworking of the classical legacy. This evolution culminated in Machiavelli’s attention to the issue of political plots in this work, with an approach that proves to be partly inspired by the previous cultural horizon, but already prominently projected towards an utterly new conceptual world. This analysis, besides providing a missing chapter on the background of Machiavelli’s work, more generally, underlines the significant contribution made by the humanist tradition, through its various literary expressions, to the development of modern political theories and to the history of our culture.

scholarly journals Fides Testi’s Use of the Airbrush in Italian Art Textiles in the 1930s

Arts ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Lucia Mannini
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mass Production ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
The United States ◽  
Geometric Shapes ◽  
Textile Design ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Italian Art ◽  
The Ideal

The Modernist aesthetic, which spread all over Europe and in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s, found the airbrush decorating technique to be the ideal instrument for expressing the requirements for an extreme synthesis of form. This was considered an essential element of the style, thanks to the areas of uniform color that shaded lighter tones inside basic, often geometric, shapes. The airbrush was used in that period mainly for graphics and for decorating ceramics, but it was also employed in other fields such as textile design. In Italy, the airbrush technique became popular in various artistic sectors including textiles, both for mass production and in the creation of single artistic pieces and in this latter field, Fides Testi was a leading figure.

Writing Amélie-the-Writer: Nothomb's Autofictional Quest for Jouissance

2014 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Berglund Hall
Keyword(s):  
The Creation ◽  
Multiple Accounts ◽  
The Ideal

In many of Amélie Nothomb's autofictional novels, the final step toward regaining the jouissance of her lost childhood is the development of the character Amélie-the-writer. Nothomb depicts in multiple accounts her character Amélie's coming to writing, a process that mirrors her nostalgia for the tube-like identity of her prelinguistic self and her perceived divinity during her childhood in Japan, as well as her desire to return to the womb. This article considers first the characteristics that are associated with Amélie's childhood, her sense of a divine and mythic self, secondly the various scenes in Nothomb's autofictional novels in which the narrator Amélie experiences a moment of death and rebirth through violence at sea, and, finally, how the character Amélie achieves, to some extent, the desired return to the ideal of childhood through the creation of a fictional self in her writing.

scholarly journals Hegemony within Higher Education: The Creation of an "Ideal" Student

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Amy Guziec
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Rhetorical Criticism ◽  
Student Population ◽  
Title Page ◽  
Student Model ◽  
Ideal Student ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Ideal

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>This paper is an examination of how higher administration at Jesuit schools use hegemony to create an ideological definition of the ‘ideal’ student. I use rhetorical criticism as a means of explaining how students are characterized and defined based on Creighton University sanctioned webpages. The results provided two major ideological principles that influence Creighton’s discussion of the overall student population, the privileging of numbers and the construction of a preferred student model. These ideological themes in combination with hegemonic principles promote the creation of an ‘ideal’ student that no individual is fully capable of attaining.  </span></p></div></div></div>

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